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00:00My name's Mike Rowe, and this is my job.
00:06I explore the country looking for people who aren't afraid to get dirty.
00:10Oh, dear.
00:12Hard-working men and women.
00:13I think sometimes he's aiming for me.
00:15Who earn an honest living.
00:16The idea now is to make sure we found the clog.
00:19Doing the kinds of jobs that make civilized life possible for the rest of us.
00:23Now, get ready to get dirty.
00:30Coming up on Dirty Jobs, a 140-year-old ship.
00:37The star of India.
00:38This is a monster.
00:39A monster that needs a facelift.
00:41It's a maintenance nightmare.
00:43All it takes is a little bit of hot tar.
00:45Beautiful.
00:45A little boiled-down cow fat.
00:47This is my lucky day.
00:48There's no doubt about it.
00:49And a little guts.
00:52This is crazy high, dude.
00:54Extraordinarily high.
00:54Very, very high.
00:56Very high.
00:57I'm going through this stuff as fast as I can.
00:59Believe me.
01:00Well, don't rub it too fast.
01:02To each his own.
01:08Oh, God.
01:11Oh!
01:11Oh!
01:11About 50 years ago, or maybe it was last month, I can't remember anymore.
01:25I came down to San Diego to do a dirty job on a yacht called the Medea.
01:29Maybe you remember it.
01:30Specifically, I went aboard the Medea underneath into the bowels of the ship to clean the boiler
01:36with a guy named Randy.
01:37I honestly don't recall ever being dirtier than I was the day that I said goodbye to Randy.
01:42But as we parted, Randy turned to me and said, Mikey, if you'd ever like to come back, you know you're always welcome.
01:46And I said, what could I possibly do here to rival this?
01:50And he said, well, you could climb aboard the Star of India.
01:52And I said, what's that?
01:53And he said, it's that big ship over there.
01:55And I said, is it dirty?
01:56And he said, well, I could give you a bucket full of rendered animal fat.
02:00You could climb up a ladder and slather up the mast.
02:02Is that dirty enough for you?
02:04I thought about it.
02:06Came back.
02:20The Star of India was originally called the Euterpe back in 1863 when it was built.
02:25Euterpe was a Greek muse of poetry, I think.
02:28Not to be confused with the sirens, those nasty women who tempted Ulysses on his way back from Troy.
02:34This, of course, is Randy.
02:35How are you, Randy?
02:36Good to see you again, Mike.
02:37It's good to see you.
02:38The Star of India.
02:39This is a monster.
02:40It is.
02:41It's about 204 feet long on the water line and about 279 feet overall.
02:46And it is the, I mean, it's still a working merchant ship, right?
02:48Yes, it is.
02:49We do take her out.
02:50She is the oldest active merchant ship in the world.
02:52Maintaining this beast constantly is a full-time job.
02:55It's a maintenance nightmare.
02:56What are you working on right here?
02:57Well, Mike, right now I'm attending to the compensation balls.
03:01These iron balls are compensating the iron hull for our binnacle so we can read our binnacle.
03:07This is a binnacle?
03:08Which is a compass.
03:09So the compensation balls work in concert with the binnacle and the iron hull?
03:14Yes, sir.
03:15They kind of compensate and calibrate so we can get true north and true south.
03:20What are you doing to the balls?
03:21Just sanding them?
03:21Yes, I'm sanding them down right now, Mike, and getting ready to paint.
03:24We may not paint today because of the weather.
03:26Does the boat have an actual captain at this point?
03:29Oh, yes, sir.
03:29We have a couple captains that work on our boat.
03:32So the captain is ultimately responsible for everything on the boat?
03:35For everything.
03:36So these are the captain's balls?
03:41They could be called the captain's balls, yes.
03:43Well, I mean, clearly.
03:44I mean, this is the captain's wheel.
03:46This is the helm, yes.
03:47What do you call this?
03:47This would be the spanker boom.
03:50This ship is a bark.
03:52It's not a full rig ship.
03:53It's a bark.
03:54So the captain's spanker boom, I see, is calibrated in between his balls.
03:58So there are going to be many jobs to do.
03:59Oh, this is a big ship, yes.
04:01And if we do all of our jobs correctly, I'm guessing the captain is going to be very pleased.
04:05He will be pleased.
04:06Yes, he will.
04:07Since we're starting off with the captain's balls, I hesitate to ask what's in store next.
04:12There's no way to go but up from here, Mike, huh?
04:15We've got some slushing of the mast, Mike, and tarring, some rigging.
04:18We're going to have you out all the way in the pointy end of the ship, working on jaboom.
04:22Who's jaboom?
04:23Jaboom.
04:24Is he here today?
04:25Oh, yes, he is here today, to be honest with you.
04:28I've been dying to meet jaboom.
04:30Yeah, you'll meet jaboom.
04:31All right.
04:31What was the technical term you used earlier?
04:34Oh, the pointy end?
04:35The pointy end, yes.
04:36That's like the bow, right?
04:37Oh, yeah.
04:37Okay.
04:37He doesn't want to confuse you.
04:39Randy's a seaman.
04:40I am a seaman, yes.
04:41Okay.
04:41Which brings us back to the captain's balls.
04:43Which brings us back to the captain's balls, Mike.
04:46We're here all night.
04:49After gently polishing the captain's binnacle balls, careful not to be spanked by his boom,
04:55I began to look forward to any new job, free of innuendo.
04:59I'm going to introduce you to David Burgess.
05:01He is our deck cocker.
05:03David?
05:03Hi.
05:04Nice to meet you.
05:05Nice to meet you.
05:05You guys, I've got some work to do, so I'll let you go.
05:07Yeah, you finish up with the balls.
05:10See you later.
05:11Thanks.
05:12Did he call you a caulker?
05:13A caulker, yes, sir.
05:15The caulking goes in between those pieces to seal the deck from rain and or seawater getting
05:20below.
05:21Okay.
05:21And the stuff that you're pulling out of here right now, I mean, it's not the kind
05:25of caulk you get at the hardware store.
05:26No.
05:27You have pitch, which goes in on top.
05:29You have two layers of a substance called oakum, which is a natural fiber, in our case, hemp.
05:36So you stretch it out into tubes and then you hammer it in.
05:39But you've got to get what's in there out first, I guess?
05:40That's correct.
05:41So you're driving this down and in, getting underneath all of the material.
05:49The oakum goes bad in a...
05:51It can, over time, deteriorate.
05:54I've got another seam that needs to be reefed out if you'd be interested.
05:58I do have...
05:59So tools like this, obviously created specifically for the job.
06:07Yes, they are.
06:08I...
06:08Goodness.
06:11Excuse me.
06:12I have terribly...
06:14Oh.
06:19Ah, that's great.
06:20That's good.
06:21It's a man where he lives, doesn't it?
06:25Try the hook on that.
06:26A lot of the tools that you find nowadays aren't thin enough to do the work that needs to be done.
06:37So, what we do is we make our own tools and get the job done.
06:48There it comes.
06:50Ink that out.
06:51Replacing the two layers of oakum requires a lot of twisting, shoving, and pounding to help get a good waterproof seal in the seam.
07:03Ah, you're looking good.
07:05There you go.
07:06Okay.
07:07After a little final hammering, the seam should be ready for tar.
07:12There you go.
07:12What we have here is, it's now called marine glue, or marine pitch.
07:18The temperature is up to about 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
07:22If you want to grab it, you're welcome to grab it up on the top here.
07:25Right.
07:25And then we can head back over.
07:27You're going to want to drop it from about an inch or two over.
07:31See how it kind of runs?
07:33Uh-huh.
07:33And you want to get it to fill up that seam.
07:37Oh.
07:37From that side.
07:39Stupid, stupid.
07:40I'll be fine, yeah.
07:41Why do you have to drop it from this height?
07:44You want to be able to see that it's actually filling all that crack.
07:48Right.
07:51Looking good.
07:52I like the faint surprise in your voice, Dave.
07:57Beautiful.
07:58Once the pitch is cooled down, it can be trimmed, flush with the deck boards.
08:03Pull it back.
08:04There you go.
08:08There you go.
08:12Okay.
08:12All right.
08:13Now this just goes on ad infinitum onto the rest of the boat.
08:18All right.
08:18So this is what you're going to do?
08:19You're going to be in the next few hours doing this?
08:21I'm going to finish everything else up and put her to bed and have fun.
08:25Well, you do that and I'll look for Randy.
08:27See what other little surprise he has for.
08:29Pleasure meeting you.
08:29Nice meeting you.
08:31Okay, good.
08:32How you doing?
08:34Great.
08:34You good?
08:34Super.
08:36Coming up, I hang out on the Star of India.
08:39Safety is our biggest concern.
08:43I'm going to hold a camera with one and I'm going to tar with the other and hope the swing
08:46doesn't, you know, give way.
08:48Just another day on the job.
08:50Somebody ought to nominate this show for an Emmy.
08:52I swear to God, man.
08:53That's a great idea.
08:54The lengths we go to get a shot.
08:57How do I get my tool dirty, you ask?
09:06Well, when it's flat and wide, I take it down a hole, rub it up and down.
09:09It's sealing roaches for an eternity.
09:12Or I put it on a pole, drag it across the ground.
09:15Hey, what about this technique here?
09:17That's pretty good.
09:18If you don't want your arms to get tired, I...
09:19Early trials had hammered metal scoops on the front, narrowing down to thin, round spikes
09:26that entered a small wooden club.
09:27What's your trial look like?
09:29More important, how do you get a 30?
09:33Looks a little like baby food, but it's not.
09:36After a couple safe jobs on the deck, the bosun decided it was time for something a little
09:45more adventurous.
09:47Yeah, that's a swing, George.
09:49I'm the bosun on board this boat.
09:52Uh-huh.
09:52This is my chair.
09:53It's called a bosun's chair.
09:55This is George.
09:56If I didn't officially introduce him before, he knows every square inch of the boat.
10:00And Randy, this is really the reason you invited me back here, right?
10:04This is it.
10:05What's the job, man?
10:06Well, the job is going to be to tar the rigging.
10:10The best way to protect it from the elements, they've been doing it for centuries, is to
10:14cover it with tar.
10:15It's called net black.
10:18It was from the fishing industry.
10:19They treat their nets with it and all that to protect the nets, and now we do it with the
10:24rigging.
10:25When you get up there, we're going to give you a glove, and you'll basically massage
10:30this tar onto the rigging to help protect the wire underneath it.
10:36How often is this done?
10:38Constant.
10:38All right.
10:39It never stops.
10:40How tall is this?
10:41We're going to get you about 130 feet off the water.
10:44I blame you for this.
10:45We have a harness for you, Michael.
10:46We're going to keep you safe.
10:47Truly, this is a knot on which my life depends.
10:50Exactly.
10:51This is John.
10:52John, what's your role going to be in this?
10:55I'm going to be up there helping guide you in where exactly you're going to be sticking
10:58it.
10:59And, George, where will you be?
11:00I'll be on deck.
11:01All right.
11:02That sort of thing to get you up and down.
11:03I'm going to be the elevator operator.
11:05So you just sit.
11:06Am I tied into this somehow?
11:07It's a body lashing.
11:08You tie yourself in with basically a line that's been opened up and then re-braided.
11:14Get your tushy on that thing.
11:22Okay.
11:23All right.
11:24That's your fail save.
11:25That's your safety, safety line.
11:26Let's get this one tied around you.
11:27It doesn't seem like much here, Michael.
11:29It's going to seem like even less while you're up there.
11:31I mean, honestly, this looks just weather-worn and boogerish and, you know.
11:37It's traditional.
11:38We've loved it a lot.
11:39Should I have a rubber glove on?
11:40What are you going to do, Mike?
11:41You're going to take your nice gloved hand.
11:44Uh-huh.
11:45Then you're going to just take and you're just going to rub it in.
11:48Every nook and cranny.
11:50All right.
11:50Get it all in there.
11:52That's what helps save this 140-year-old ship.
11:57And all the ropes that I see now that are black are black because this stuff has been rubbed
12:02into them prior?
12:03Yep.
12:03We've only got about three and a half or four miles of this stuff to do.
12:06Great.
12:07Dropping things would be bad, right?
12:09Dropping things is really bad.
12:10Safety is our biggest concern aboard the Star of India.
12:14And if you drop yourself?
12:16Try to get in the body bag before you hit the deck.
12:18It's just good manners.
12:20Okay.
12:21All right.
12:21On the capstan.
12:23Heave away.
12:24Haul around.
12:28Watch the Liverpool bridge there.
12:30Watch your bucket of tar.
12:32Right.
12:33Oh, I see.
12:33I'm going to have to be pushing off of a lot of things, right?
12:35Yeah, you are.
12:37You got to clear all the rigging there.
12:38Right.
12:39We're not going too fast for you, are we?
12:41No, no.
12:42This is good.
12:42Nice state lead.
12:44Half mile an hour.
12:44Okay.
12:45If you hear some popping noises and all that down here, don't worry about it.
12:49I just heard one.
12:50It's all totally normal.
12:52Yeah?
12:52Yeah.
12:53Good.
12:54Popping noises.
12:55Great.
12:59That was another pop.
13:00That's because Randy tripped and fell down.
13:03Randy tells me that riding a bosun's chair might look like fun, but it's incredibly dangerous.
13:08Fatal accidents with this rig occur every year.
13:10How are we doing up there, Mike?
13:12I heard more popping.
13:14Newer chairs have many modern safety features.
13:17Of course, I'm not riding a newer chair.
13:20This popping noise you're hearing is just the rope as it works around the drum on the captain.
13:26Thank you, George.
13:27That's extraordinarily comforting.
13:32It's high.
13:33It's very high.
13:34John, this is crazy high, dude.
13:36Yeah, you've only got another 20 feet or so to go.
13:38That's great.
13:39Where is your harness?
13:40I'm wearing it.
13:41It's underneath my shirt.
13:42Okay.
13:43Where are you tied?
13:44You're not even tied in, man.
13:45I got two hands.
13:47Oh.
13:48You're going to want to swing out around these halyards.
13:51Here we go.
13:52Now, as you get a little higher, you can kind of use your ankles and your feet around the
13:57two backstays.
13:58Yeah, this?
13:59That's a lift.
14:00This thing I got my hand on here is a backstay.
14:02Whatever you can reach, all of that on both sides.
14:05Okay.
14:06As well as the hounds.
14:08What's a hound?
14:09All the black kind of comes to a meeting point up there.
14:12Yeah?
14:13And wraps around the mast.
14:15All right, so a hound here, a hound on the other side, and then this area that's currently
14:19covered with bird crap.
14:21That too, yeah.
14:26In an effort to make my job even more interesting and exciting, Dave sends up a camera for me
14:31to operate.
14:32Okay, this is a good one.
14:38I'm at the very top of the Star of India, as you can see, and they've sent my little
14:44camera up here because there's just no other way to get a shot of what the problem is.
14:50I'm going to be, with this hand, tarring this area right here.
14:55It's called a hound, and the hound is attached to all of this stuff, and it's all got to get
15:01tared, so I'm going to try and show it to you as best I can.
15:07Troy, meanwhile, is about 15 feet under me shooting up right now, doing a heck of a job.
15:12How you doing, Troy?
15:13I'm hanging in here.
15:14I don't know if this is smart or stupid, but I'm going to hold a camera with one hand,
15:18and I'm going to tar with the other and hope the swing doesn't, you know, give way.
15:22Okay.
15:23That's the tar.
15:24I reach into the tar.
15:25You see the tar.
15:27The tar is applied.
15:29Okay.
15:30The hound needs to be tarred as well.
15:32This hound, in particular, is covered with bird crap, as you can see, so if nothing else,
15:37we can make some dramatic aesthetic improvements.
15:40Extraordinarily high.
15:42Very, very high.
15:43Very high.
15:50Hey, John?
15:51Yes?
15:52This, uh, this guy right here?
15:54Also?
15:55Yes.
15:56That's the Royal Backstake.
15:58The Royal?
15:59Yes.
16:00Looks like you're familiar with emotion there, Mike.
16:03Sounds like you watch the show, John.
16:05I've heard rumors.
16:06All right.
16:10I'm now, in the interest of living longer, going to put this camera away.
16:15Ask him to lower me down eight feet.
16:17Aloft on the main!
16:19We need to lower the gantling eight feet!
16:22Okay, they're going to lower me about eight feet.
16:23I'm going to give this camera to John.
16:26Like me, John's not a cameraman.
16:28Unlike me, however, he has no problem whatsoever with heights,
16:32and is probably a better candidate to hold onto this thing.
16:36Oh, that's well!
16:42Look at you shooting video, John.
16:44Unbelievable.
16:45Pete's working.
16:46I can tell Troy that.
16:48I'm John.
16:49I'm not a real cameraman.
16:50I just play one at work.
16:53So, John, normally you guys would communicate with whistles?
16:56That would be a tradition, especially on a ship at sea.
16:59They'd use a bosun's pipe or bosun's whistle to call orders.
17:02What's more traditional is for whoever's in a chair, the bosun's chair like you are,
17:07to pretty much control themselves as opposed to being controlled from the deck.
17:10Right.
17:11You know, we'll make a bosun out of you yet here.
17:14Let's just get around him.
17:15I'd switch with you for a week.
17:17No, that's okay.
17:18I've seen some of the places you put your hands.
17:20I don't know.
17:21I think I'll pass.
17:23Thanks for the offer, though.
17:24Anytime.
17:25Hey, get a shot of Troy, would you?
17:27Oh, yeah.
17:28I've been doing that.
17:29I got him right next to your tar bucket here.
17:31Somebody ought to nominate this show for an Emmy.
17:33I swear to God, man.
17:34I mean, that's a great idea.
17:35The lengths we go to get a shot.
17:37We'll put a camera in anybody's hands.
17:39We'll put a cameraman in great danger.
17:41We'll strap tar to my waist, hoist me up in the air just to make a black cable blacker.
17:48Now, careful that bucket doesn't get hooked on anything on the way down.
17:51I'm looking.
17:52Believe me, that's happened to me.
17:53I wiped out a whole bunch of school kids that way one time.
17:56Did you?
17:56Wiped them out.
17:57We bought a bunch of new outfits that day.
17:59Actually, we had to shave one kid's hair.
18:06On deck three feet.
18:07Is that the call?
18:08Yeah.
18:09On deck.
18:10Lower away three feet.
18:12Ease away three feet.
18:14Half a fathom.
18:18Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo.
18:27How you doing down there?
18:29I'm solid, man.
18:30I got this whole one done pretty well.
18:32And then I got this guy here.
18:34But sadly, I'm nearly out of tar.
18:36Okay.
18:37Well, when you run out, we'll just go ahead and lower you down.
18:40I'm going through this stuff as fast as I can.
18:42Believe me.
18:42Well, don't rub it too fast.
18:45To each his own.
18:48He's away through half a fathom.
18:56I'm all out of tar, John.
18:58Mike's out of tar.
18:59Needs to come down.
19:00Easing!
19:04That is some crazy work you do up there, George.
19:07Your seatbelt here.
19:09I'd have stayed up longer.
19:10I ran out of tar, which is tragic.
19:14Meanwhile, Troy Paff is hanging up there.
19:17I mean, hanging on with one hand.
19:19He's literally shooting the show like this, 150 feet up.
19:23And John, your man John, I gave him my camera.
19:25He's shooting Troy.
19:27The whole day's upside down.
19:29I'd love to chat, but I thought I heard somebody yell lunch.
19:31Coming up.
19:34No one bends like this, do they?
19:36On deck!
19:37All right.
19:39Randy takes me back up into the air to rub cow fat on a big, dirty pole.
19:44See, why do you have to take it to a weird place, Randy?
19:46Every time.
19:47All right.
19:47How do I get my tool dirty?
19:56Well, when it's short and sharp, I like to stick it in the crack.
20:00Then the world is my oyster.
20:04When my blade is big, oh, I'm going to like this.
20:07There we go.
20:08Slash just seems to come easy to me, for the most part.
20:11The machete is normally used to cut through thick vegetation, such as sugar cane or jungle
20:18undergrowth.
20:19But it can be used as an offensive weapon.
20:24There we go.
20:27Is your tool a weapon?
20:29How do you get it dirty?
20:34This is the Orlop deck on the Star of India.
20:37And Orlop, that's the lowest deck you can go.
20:40It's the lowest working deck you can go on.
20:42Lowest deck, right.
20:43This is why you brought me back here.
20:44Yes.
20:45This is a barrel full of what exactly?
20:49It's a barrel full of tallow, which is a barrel full of cow or animal, boiled down fat,
20:54boiled and reboiled and refined to lubricant, which before there was petroleum, there was
20:59tallow.
21:01So is it fair to say that this is the original lube?
21:06That's what they would have used, exactly.
21:09Smells good, huh?
21:10It does.
21:10But see, you can take this, and it's a natural hand cleaner.
21:16It moisturizes?
21:17Sure.
21:18You're soaking in it.
21:19Exactly.
21:20How do you reckon people figured out that if you melted a cow into its liquid form, it
21:26would somehow serve a useful purpose?
21:27Well, I think the guy who was making lard left it on the stove too long, and he finally discovered
21:32it by accident, is what I'm thinking.
21:34But we're getting down to this, Mike, because what we're going to do is we're going to tallow
21:37our masks.
21:37That's how we lubricate our masks.
21:39It's a period type lubrication, and it works the best.
21:42Why does the mask need to be lubricated in the first place?
21:45The yards on a mask go up and down the yard.
21:47It needs to be lubricated.
21:49Correct.
21:49Now, George, do you think it was wise before sending me high into a place where my grip
21:54would be the margin between life and death to completely make my hands as slippery as
21:59possible?
21:59Hey, what fun is it if it can't be had at somebody else's expense?
22:03George makes good points.
22:04He doesn't.
22:05Yeah, right where I left it.
22:07Looks familiar, huh?
22:08It calls to me, Randy.
22:10We'll strap it on.
22:16No one bends like this, do they?
22:18When I hear something pop, I'm going to stop.
22:20Yeah.
22:21Yeah, that's it.
22:21Now you're...
22:22Almost there.
22:23There you go.
22:24There you go, Mike.
22:27Are we using the original lubricant because we're just trying to keep things original?
22:32But we do try to be as traditional as we can in most of our methods because this is
22:36a historic vessel.
22:37It's not a replica.
22:37It's the real thing.
22:39You'll be coming up with me this time?
22:40All right.
22:41I'm going to get up the rig.
22:41I'm going to climb up the rig, Mike.
22:43I'm going to meet you up there.
22:44I'll see you up there, Randy.
22:45So when I get up there, you want me to get the mast, like, get around it?
22:49Get as close to it as you can.
22:51You've got to get all sides.
22:52You've got to get all the way around.
22:54Yes, sir.
22:54All right.
22:55Keep around.
22:57Yeah, John, this is kind of awkward, but Chuck, you just glide over that.
23:01Look at that.
23:03Don't spill now.
23:04No, I won't spill the runny cow.
23:14You glided right up there like you've done it once or twice.
23:17Once or twice.
23:18Get yourself comfortable, Mike.
23:20Yeah.
23:20We can make fast work of this, Mike, by getting a lot of tallow on your left hand if you like
23:24hanging on with your right hand.
23:25Tallow with left.
23:26Okay.
23:27That's a good idea.
23:28Randy tells me the hull of these kinds of ships were also covered with tallow.
23:32But application of calfat in the air has more challenges on the ground.
23:38Heads up.
23:39You got Troy, bro.
23:40Oh, did I?
23:41Look at him.
23:41Uh-oh.
23:42If you drop tallow, does that count for a round of drinks?
23:44No, it's not something they can control.
23:47Sorry, Troy.
23:47You got nailed.
23:48Yeah, you got all the says, yeah.
23:51Yeah.
23:52On deck!
23:53Lower way!
23:56Avast!
24:01This is really dangerous up here with tallow.
24:04Do you get this stuff on your hands?
24:05Do you think you can hang on?
24:06You can't.
24:06You think you can't?
24:07No.
24:07Oh, you can come out of the seat?
24:08Sure.
24:09Yeah, a little bit, yeah.
24:09Oh, yeah, you got a little slack there.
24:11A little slack.
24:12So, Randy, I've just decided to go with the whole both-hand approach here.
24:15You're doing great, Mike.
24:16We're getting the tallow on the mast, and that's what they want.
24:19They'll stop all the splintering, all the chafing, so they'll keep all the water out of it.
24:23Uh-huh.
24:24It's fantastic.
24:25So, really, with the tallow you have on that mast, Mike, you don't need any more.
24:29Just keep on lubricating and massaging, and getting better than that.
24:34Lucky this isn't a five-masted bark.
24:36This is a three-masted bark.
24:37Lucky for us, huh?
24:39This is my lucky day.
24:40There's no doubt about it.
24:41Look, it's dirty, man, but as days go, you could do worse.
24:48The view's great, the company's not bad, and the lubricant's surprisingly slippery.
24:54There's a sentence I bet nobody's heard before.
24:56True.
24:57And it's edible.
24:59See, why do you have to take it to a weird place, Randy?
25:01Every time, you've got to take it one step further.
25:05I'm learning from the best, Mike.
25:06Who eats tallow?
25:09In a certain state, probably nobody.
25:10Okay, Mike, it looks like we've got this done.
25:13Good.
25:13All I would suggest to you, sir, would be to remove those gloves.
25:15Yep.
25:16And keep your hands as clean as possible, and hang on while we lower you to the deck.
25:22On deck!
25:22All right, all right?
25:23All right!
25:23Lower away!
25:24All right!
25:27After greasing a mask with a melted cowl, needless to say, I'm curious about what might be next.
25:38Coming up.
25:39Do you tie off at this point?
25:41No.
25:41Walking the plank is a piece of cake, compared to climbing spaghetti.
25:45That is some very temporary rigging.
25:47Historical preservation.
25:49The extreme sport of the future.
25:50Stop playing your video games, kids.
25:52Get out of here.
25:53Man, they could use the help.
25:54When my tool is a hoe, more than likely, it's already dirty.
26:06Now I understand why the mask is key.
26:08Although used here, in an industrial setting, the hoe originally was used in the oldest profession in the world.
26:14Agriculture.
26:15Through the other side, right?
26:16Yes, it is.
26:18The earliest hoes date from 5,000 B.C., and were actually nothing more than forked sticks.
26:23Most of my experience is with dirty little hoes.
26:30But once, I had my hands on a long, hot, steaming hoe.
26:34Never forget that one.
26:35Few people have touched a hoe this hot.
26:38Have you?
26:42In the old days, they used to call this part of the boat the Forecastle.
26:46That area right behind the bow.
26:49At some point, the Navy abbreviated it.
26:51Now it's the Fauxhall.
26:53So I'm up here on the Fauxhall deck with Jim, and he's the first mate, and I don't know what you're doing, Jim.
27:00What's up?
27:00Well, I'm just fixing up the next thing we're going to have you doing on board here.
27:04And that's going to be working on an area of the ship called the Jib Boom.
27:07Uh-huh.
27:07And on the Jib Boom, we're going to be working on a spot that has a termite.
27:13Now, most times on ships.
27:15That's the Jib Boom?
27:16That's the Jib Boom, yeah.
27:17And that's what Randy called the Jib Boom before.
27:19The Jib Boom, yeah.
27:20Another abbreviation.
27:22Okay.
27:22And we've gone out there and whittled away quite a bit of the wood.
27:26We could have used it last week, actually.
27:28You know what?
27:28There was, I was tied up at a, I think I was at a dairy.
27:32Yeah, I think.
27:32Yeah, I was inside a cow.
27:34Yeah, I saw it.
27:35No, thanks.
27:35I'd rather much do this than what you were doing then, so.
27:37What is that specifically?
27:38It's in a penetrating epoxy, so we're going to fill the last bits of all the galleries
27:43of the termites that we've killed with epoxy.
27:46And then we're going to be injecting the wood, and for the areas that we can't inject, we're
27:50going to be brushing it.
27:51Yeah, yeah.
27:52By all means.
27:54Naturally, the piece of wood in question is the highest and most difficult to get to on
27:58the Jib Boom.
27:59Now, the rigging I've been crawling around on is fairly, fairly robust.
28:06What are we looking at out there?
28:07Well, what you're looking at out there is a lot of temporary rigging.
28:10We're climbing spaghetti.
28:11We're climbing spaghetti, yeah.
28:13First part is going to be just like we're used to on the chain here.
28:15You say the chain, you mean this chain?
28:17That chain here, yeah.
28:17We're going, we're walking on the chain?
28:19Sure, why not?
28:20I don't know, why wouldn't you walk on this?
28:22Because there's really nothing to hold on to as you're going along here, you can hold
28:24on there.
28:25Oh, yeah, okay.
28:27Do you tie off at this point?
28:30No.
28:30No.
28:31No, not me.
28:32Why would we do that?
28:33I'm going to follow you out, and then I'm stepping on.
28:36Okay.
28:41Just keep on climbing straight ahead, and you're going to step onto the next section.
28:45Holding on with your left hand and with your right foot stepping forward.
28:49I was just going to crawl.
28:51You're too dirty to get my ship dirty.
28:53I'd hate to get your ship dirty.
28:54Now you just have to kind of be able to work your way out by holding on to the next whisker
28:57stay behind you, and keep working your way all the way up to the very tip.
29:01Are you stepping where I'm stepping?
29:02Mm-hmm.
29:02Just like climbing straight up.
29:04Now we get into the really spaghetti part.
29:06Wait a minute, over where?
29:06Over there?
29:07Mm-hmm.
29:08That is some very temporary rigging.
29:11All right.
29:13Where am I going?
29:15You're going right to that bare piece of wood.
29:17That's what we're going to be working on.
29:18All right.
29:18So while we're here, let's go ahead and get your harness hooked up to the stay here.
29:22This is a little one jacked-up job, dude.
29:28I mean, really.
29:31Well, actually, it's really kind of a fun place to be.
29:33It's kind of like a...
29:33I'm having a ball.
29:34Like a catbird scene.
29:35It really is.
29:36It's great.
29:37There you go.
29:37Yes.
29:38Oh, it's exciting.
29:39Good.
29:40All right.
29:42Okay.
29:43Let's pull out the tube of our epoxy and a paintbrush.
29:47You're going to put your hand through the loop, whatever one you prefer.
29:50Okay.
29:50Now you can't let it go.
29:51All right.
29:52So pick a spot, and as far as you can reach up here and start painting it down.
29:56You're going to squirt, and I'll paint.
29:57I'll squirt, and you paint.
29:58Okay.
30:04Have you seen this teamwork that's going on here with me and Jim?
30:08It's like words and music up here.
30:09I'm telling you.
30:13And have you noticed where my feet are, by the way?
30:16I mean, just to really bring it home, that's, yeah, that's the job.
30:20That's the job.
30:21That's it.
30:22This is probably going to take all the epoxy we have, isn't it?
30:25Yeah.
30:25It's a shame because it's a really pretty piece of wood.
30:27So, I mean, as long as I have you up here, helpless and suspended and all, what's the best part of the job?
30:33It felt like a family atmosphere and such, and it intrigued me.
30:36I've always liked history.
30:38It's been a pleasure to keep the old girl alive and to be able to say that I'm working on the oldest operational tall ship in the world.
30:44Well, it's very cool.
30:45But, you know, I mean, we're the kids, like, you know, that were your age.
30:50Play video games.
30:54Stop playing your video games, kids.
30:55Get out of here.
30:56Man, they could use the help.
30:58Be good for you.
30:58Get some fresh air.
31:00Scared the hell out of you, but you'd be glad you did.
31:01I've got a hell of a view.
31:03I mean, what are you going to do with a video game resume?
31:05What are you going to do with a tall ship resume?
31:07That's a good point.
31:09At least you'll have some stories.
31:11No, the chance to be able to pass this down to the next generation, whether they're, you know, caring about it or not, you know, at least we're going to have the chance to do it.
31:19Man, that's awesome.
31:20Are you kidding?
31:21You got a great job.
31:22Yeah.
31:22What about this?
31:23You worried about any of this?
31:24Couldn't hurt.
31:24Any place that a bug or water can get in, we're going to be rehabbing the whole thing.
31:30Yeah, it just drinks it up, man.
31:31This is thirsty wood.
31:32Thirsty wood.
31:33It's kind of cool to think this will probably be here long after we're gone.
31:36I mean, I hope we're here a long time.
31:38Don't get me wrong, but okay.
31:40That's empty.
31:41That means we're done for this part.
31:42So we go back to where we came from?
31:44You go back where we came from the same way we got here.
32:00There you go.
32:02Preparing termite damage on a jaboom.
32:13Dirty job.
32:15Coming up.
32:15My job is to crawl on my belly in the tiny tube over top of the pieces of very, very, very sharp, serrated metal and steel.
32:23Oh, and by the way...
32:23You might hear the echo of some other voices.
32:26You're telling me the ship's haunted?
32:28Yes.
32:29Ow.
32:30The ghosts of the ship welcome me aboard.
32:32Ow.
32:32What a journal entry I'm going to have tonight.
32:34How do I get my tool dirty?
32:43Well, if it's heavy and blunt, sometimes I'll take it to a secluded hillside and pound away.
32:48Freaking mother!
32:50Freaking!
32:50Ah!
32:51Ah!
32:51Fucking f***!
32:53Other times I'll take it into a long, dark tunnel where the two of us can make beautiful music together.
32:57According to archaeological records, the hammer is perhaps the oldest known human tool.
33:08How old is your hammer?
33:10Can it still work its magic?
33:11Okay, I think I'm pretty much right underneath where I was moments before.
33:21This is still the foxhole?
33:23Above you is the foxhole head.
33:25This is the actual foxhole.
33:26This is where the crew might have slept in the voyages because it was the crappiest place on the boat.
33:34This is a crappy place, man.
33:35What's this?
33:36This is called the bowsprit.
33:38This basically supports the jaboom.
33:42It's a hollow piece of iron that was laid up in 1863, so we have to periodically inspect it.
33:48You're going to want me to crawl inside this thing, aren't you?
33:50Uh-huh.
33:51Mm-hmm.
33:51Yeah.
33:52Yep.
33:52Pretty much it.
33:54Will I fit?
33:55Well, we're going to find out.
33:56You've been in here, George?
33:57Yes, I have.
33:58Back in around 95 or so.
34:00For what purpose?
34:01Why?
34:01Well, again, we have to make sure and protect all the iron work because what happens to it,
34:08Oh, boy.
34:09You know what?
34:09I can't see a thing, but it sounds rusty.
34:11Well, I'll show you what you're going to be looking for if I can plug this light in here.
34:15Sure.
34:17You're going to be climbing up in there.
34:18Looking for rust?
34:19Looking for rust.
34:20If you find any rust, you need to report it to me so that we can fix it.
34:24I mean, if it's just lying around like this, I just push it behind me?
34:27Yep.
34:27Hard to go to the place.
34:28You're basically going to be a human Q-tip.
34:31See, that's what happened the last time I came here when I swore I'd never see you again.
34:34That's right.
34:35In fact, isn't that the do-rag I wore?
34:38This is the official do-rag you wore.
34:40Here, I'm going to need to switch with you.
34:42Okay, Mike.
34:42Here we go.
34:43I'm going to revisit the...
34:44Let me dress you like I did before I get it on there tight.
34:46Why is it all red?
34:47That's a rust-oleum type paint.
34:50What needs to be done occasionally is all the rust goes away, then we treat it with a rust preventer,
34:56then we cover it up with a primer paint.
35:00All right, so to recap, my job is to crawl on my belly in the tiny tube over top of the pieces of very, very, very sharp,
35:06straight metal and steel and look for rust.
35:09If I find any, I give you some previously agreed upon sign like there's rust here.
35:14You're going to hear, if you listen to the...
35:17Hello?
35:19No, you might.
35:20Hey!
35:20Hey, get out of there!
35:21You're bleeding!
35:22You might actually hear that up in there because we do have spirits on board the vessel.
35:27What are you talking about?
35:28There were lives born and lives lost on board this vessel.
35:32You're telling me the ship's haunted?
35:34Yes, it is.
35:36Seriously?
35:36Seriously?
35:37Seriously.
35:37Whoa, whoa, whoa.
35:38And some of those spirits do occasionally appear.
35:42This is without jest.
35:43This is very serious.
35:45You've actually had experiences on the boat that have led you to believe and conclude definitively that there's a supernatural presence here.
35:52Yes.
35:53A number of us have, yes.
35:54Right.
35:55It can happen in the middle of the night.
35:56It can happen in the middle of the day where things move and not just from the ship's motion.
36:02They hear the footsteps going across the deck.
36:04So, if you hear some, not just the echo of your own voice, you might hear the echo of some other voices from...
36:10An entity.
36:11Okay, good.
36:12So, it gets better and better.
36:13It's a small confined space full of razor sharp pieces of steel and...
36:17And spirits.
36:17And evil presence.
36:18Yeah.
36:19Right.
36:19And you can come back with a scale of 1 to 10.
36:22How's it looking?
36:23Look, I can tell you right now it ain't good.
36:27Little hippie.
36:32Now, fold your head.
36:34Yeah.
36:35Oh, you got it, dude.
36:36Oh, yeah.
36:37Hey, you know what would be cool?
36:39Do you guys have an extra camera?
36:40Oh, awesome.
36:41Holy smokes.
36:47Coming up.
36:48Ladies and gentlemen, live from the star of India.
36:52Ah, they got me by the pants now.
36:54Mike, is my bandana still on your head?
36:57Yeah, but my face isn't.
36:59Ow.
37:06When my tool is a big steel rod...
37:09I like to wedge it into tight places.
37:13And boy, it sure does get dirty.
37:14So, after my work, I clean it up in the bathroom.
37:18With a history that traces back to at least 1,400,
37:21the crowbar derives its name from its resemblance to the feet or beaks of crows.
37:27What's your crowbar resemble?
37:29Is it little?
37:30Or is it big?
37:32Like mine.
37:32And I leave the seat down again.
37:34Why?
37:35Because I'm considerate.
37:39Look at that.
37:40That's how miserable.
37:43Oh, yeah.
37:43Hold on.
37:44Let me show.
37:45That's some of that razor sharp steel we were talking about.
37:49That's everywhere.
37:51There's some more of it there.
37:52You know what?
37:53Right here, already.
37:54I found rust.
37:56I don't like the way this is flaking.
37:57Well, you have to come back and fix it someday.
37:59I'll make sure to do that.
38:00So, you're about halfway up there so far, huh, Mike?
38:05Halfway?
38:05Halfway?
38:06Is that about how far you are?
38:07No.
38:08Oh, that is sharp.
38:10Son of a gun.
38:11What is the purpose of the razor sharp metal again?
38:15This supports the jaboom that's up above it.
38:17So, you have to have that lateral reinforcement.
38:20Uh-huh.
38:21Uh-oh.
38:22I like the sound of that.
38:25You didn't rip that new sweatshirt we gave you, did you?
38:28Oh, crap.
38:30Ow.
38:31This is like one of those sewer cams.
38:34Yeah, I'm finding more rust, and I've ruined my beautiful new sweatshirt.
38:38F***.
38:40How much time did you spend in here?
38:42About three days total.
38:44Three days?
38:45Yes, sir.
38:45It was ugly.
38:47Well, I gotta tell you, I like the way I sound in here.
38:50Ladies and gentlemen, live from the star of India.
38:55That really does sound good.
38:56Yeah, it's good.
38:57That's pretty good.
38:58Yeah.
39:00Ah, why'd my light just go off?
39:02It's one of those spirits, Mike.
39:03I swear.
39:05Oh, I've done it.
39:07Oh, man, there's rust everywhere here, George.
39:09Is there?
39:10Oh, God, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting rust.
39:13Oh, you're gonna need to spend another three, four days in here.
39:16Just what I wanted to hear.
39:17You don't want to stick around and do that for us, huh, Mike?
39:19No, I don't.
39:20But thank you for asking, Randy.
39:22Oh, I forgot to tell you.
39:24I wore Kevlar forearm pads and knee pads and all that.
39:29I forgot to tell you about that.
39:30I forgot to switch up, Mike.
39:31Yeah, you really did.
39:32Sorry about that, dude.
39:34Actually, your head's hanging over the bow of the ship right now.
39:37Great.
39:38Ah, there goes my light again.
39:39Son of a...
39:40Dirty, rotten...
39:41Son of a...
39:42Light.
39:42All right, my light's back on.
39:45You schizophrenic orb.
39:47I'm tight, man.
39:48There's no sign of any supernatural activity yet, but like I said, I'm only halfway.
39:53Oh, look at all this.
39:54Oh, now we're into a real area.
39:55I'm literally pulling hunks of rust up.
39:58Oh, no.
39:58Oh, yeah.
39:59I just saw your whole summer flash before my eyes.
40:02Oh, boy.
40:03You can stop any time now, Mike.
40:04No, I can't.
40:05No, it's personal.
40:06Okay.
40:06You know.
40:09Send some of this back down your way.
40:11Oh, man.
40:14Okay.
40:15Yeah, you're right, Mike.
40:16This is looking pretty ugly.
40:17It's getting worse up here, too.
40:19All right.
40:19I've come as far as I can go.
40:21What a journal entry I'm going to have tonight.
40:23Yep.
40:24Crap.
40:25Ow.
40:27Ow.
40:28Ow.
40:28My beautiful new sweatshirt.
40:32There's nothing I can do.
40:35There's nothing I can do to stop it.
40:36Ow.
40:37Ow.
40:38Brats.
40:39Ow.
40:40I should have saved the receipt.
40:41Ah, stop your whining.
40:44Oh.
40:45Oh, God.
40:46I think the spirits have me, George.
40:49You're absolutely right.
40:50This tube is haunted.
40:51The spirits are pulling my clothes off.
40:54Is it a girl's spirit?
40:55Ah, they got me by the pants now.
40:59Spirit's got my bottom, George.
41:01Fight.
41:01Fight the urge there.
41:02Fight the urge.
41:04Oh.
41:05Oh.
41:05I can read the soles of your shoes now.
41:07What do they say?
41:08Get me the hell out?
41:09Yeah.
41:10Mike?
41:11Is my bandana still on your head?
41:13Yeah.
41:13But my face isn't.
41:14Ow.
41:16Okay.
41:17You're clear.
41:18Bottom your feet out.
41:19Ow.
41:20Ow.
41:21Get your head out first, Pete.
41:26I'll take your camera.
41:28Okay.
41:31That is a haunted tube.
41:34The spirits are violent.
41:35Tore me a new bottom.
41:36Oh.
41:40The spirits, they did to my shirt.
41:43You're a wreck.
41:44I want to, uh, I want to thank you guys for having us back.
41:48Here, give me that.
41:49You're not a cameraman.
41:51I want to thank you, George, for having us back.
41:53No worries.
41:53Anytime.
41:54You'll never see me again.
41:55No, I'm probably lying, because last time I said goodbye to him, I said the exact same
41:59thing.
41:59Here I am again.
42:00Jim.
42:01Bye-bye.
42:03And farewell to the haunted tube.
42:05The day ends with me covered in sweat, tar, a dead cow, and cloaked in the supernatural
42:13reality of the thing in the tube.
42:17It's a good day.
42:18I don't want this to sound threatening in any way, but if you and your loved ones don't
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42:42I don't know.
42:44I don't know what I'm going to do.
42:47But I might be forced to...
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43:02I am so sorry.
43:04I think I got something on my neck.
43:06Oh, man, I'm really sorry, but just, you know, it's, uh, it got away from me, you know?
43:14Do what you need.
43:15This is not going to help you.
43:17I've never felt closer to Troy.
43:18Look at his hat.
43:22Everything's fine.
43:24Everything's fine.
43:25Nothing to see here.
43:26Nothing to see here.
43:27Everything's fine.
43:28It's fine.
43:29It's fine.
43:30Nothing to see.
43:31Everything's under control.
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